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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This month we ran school workshops with nearly 100 kids in Bulgan, northern Mongolia. We had 2 goals: bringing hands-on archaeology into the classroom, & collecting data on young people's interests, hopes & dreams to better understand the potential relevance of heritage. It was also very fun.

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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hollywood royalty in the museum this morning!

Jeff Goldblum surrounded by Grant Museum specimens looking at a mosquito in resin

Jeff Goldblum sitting at a desk full of specimens in the Grant Museum

Group hug in the Micrarium - Grant Museum staff and honorary curator Jeff Goldblum

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Delighted to announce that we are relaunching the Steppe Sisters Speaker Series! Join us tomorrow (2pm UK time) to hear the excellent Nari Lee present her eye-opening research on gendered barriers to participation in fieldwork, comparing case studies in Mongolia and South Korea. lnkd.in/dPT6RPaR

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thoughtful questions from students at last week's UCL Careers panel on Career Options in Museums in the Digital Era. Educators & mentors, take note: current students want to learn where museum jobs are advertised, how to describe volunteering on CVs & how soft skills relate to different museum jobs.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Delighted to be joining the Steppe Sisters network's Steering Committee as Programmes Coordinator. If you're a woman doing research in Central Asia/Mongolia, consider joining us! We offer news, resources, support, a platform to share your work - and, very soon, more events. www.steppesisters.org

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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 10/10/2025

Many thanks to @lisarandisi.bsky.social for a wonderful day at the Petrie Museum in London. First, a handling session, looking at ephemera – eg newspaper used to wrap an item during excavation. Then I worked in the university library for a few hours. Then more ephemera this evening.

Lisa Randisi in the museum wearing gloves and holding an artefact tray, speaking to a group of people who are not shown.

A newspaper from January 1897 that has been posted from London to Petrie in Egypt.

Selfie in the library, wearing a shirt with books on it.

In a lecture theatre. Lisa is standing in front of a projection screen showing the title slide: Between object and archive: the Petrie’s Archaeological Ephemera Project.

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UCL Global Engagement @ucl-global.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

📢 Tonight at the Horniman Museum (6–9pm): All Eyes on Her! A powerful display from our AHRC-funded project with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social & Horniman Museum, celebrating the creativity, resistance & heritage of Egyptian women, past & present. Free entry, all welcome⬇️

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Horniman Museum Late - Horniman Museum and Gardens

Enjoy an evening at the Horniman Museum late with extended opening times once a month often with music and crafts

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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The more I look at Pompeii, the more it strikes me how plastic it was. Rubble walls plastered & painted to look like marble. Brick columns plastered to look like solid stone. Tiny gardens painted to look like rolling villas. An aspirational city, where everyone wanted to be someone/somewhere else.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

My Spotlight Lecture for @theees.bsky.social, on the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social's Archaeological Ephemera Project, is now available online - If you work with a historic collection that has similar bits and bobs, and would like to join our Community of Practice, please get in touch!

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Spotlight Lecture: Between Object and Archive

YouTube video by The Egypt Exploration Society

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/09/2025

Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.

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A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century

Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.

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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 02/09/2025

Excellent lunchtime Egyptology with @lisarandisi.bsky.social and @theees.bsky.social – looking at ephemera. The random bits and bobs in museum collections that initially had no value, such as food containers reused to transport artefacts, which give a snapshot of life on that excavation.

Zoom screenshot: Between Object and Archive: the Petrie Museum Archaeological Ephemera Project, Lisa Randisi. The slide shows images of boxes for candles, matches, carbolic tooth powder etc.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Looking for something fun to do at lunchtime tomorrow? Why not tune in to my EES Spotlight Lecture on archaeological ephemera at the Petrie Museum? Stories of Victorian archaeologists shopping, grumpy museum curators & more... 1pm (UK) / 3pm (Egypt) @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social @theees.bsky.social

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Between Object and Archive

Following EA 66, Lisa Randisi discusses items in the liminal space between object and archive within the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. Start time: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt)

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Shocked and deeply sad to hear of the passing of Egyptologist and performer extraordinaire John J Johnston yesterday. Tonight in the Petrie Museum we raise a glass to you. Ave atque vale.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What do you get when you cross musical theatre, decolonial museum practice, archives and student satire?

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Been keeping this one under wraps… delighted to announce that for the last couple of months, I’ve been working on an audio documentary about young people in contemporary rural Mongolia, thanks to the @rgsibg.bsky.social's Journey in Audio programme. Original pitch (think trailer of sorts) below:

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RGS Journey in Audio pitch

Listen to RGS Journey in Audio pitch by The Wendy Bird #np on #SoundCloud

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Last chance to see... and unsee our display about the different Egypts that we all see. Closing tomorrow!

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Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Thrilled to work with @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social researchers to communicate their incredible work on wasps! Many thanks to @hannahcornish.bsky.social, Alice Holloway, @ucllccos.bsky.social wider team, @uclnews.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for all their support 🐝

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Yesterday, I ran into a bunch of students who were loading up on dictionaries and thesauruses that had been discarded by our campus library. I asked them about it and they said “because AI has made digital tools worthless”

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

'The Ginza on a Spring Night' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1934. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

A street scene at night, people walking and cherry blossoms.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hot off the press! You can find my article on archaeological #ephemera and the social history of archaeology in this month's Egyptian Archaeology magazine (@theees.bsky.social) #makingephemerahappen

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Last year the Petrie Museum hosted Reimagining Flinderella, a programme centring student voices around the legacy of early archaeology. This year we're inviting students of all backgrounds & people of Egyptian and Sudanese descent to revisit this conversation, to workshop solutions for the future.

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Legacies of Heritage Practice in the Nile Valley: Solutions for the Future?

A museum-based student forum, workshopping ideas for heritage futures at UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Last year, along with 8 brilliant women, I co-founded a network for women in arts & heritage & women from corporate backgrounds to get together & enjoy shared experiences in London. 6 months later, Muses in the City has 100+ members & our first magazine feature by Yinsey Wang. Exciting times ahead!

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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Booking is live for our next #MakingTheMuseum workshop! We've teamed up with Zine Collective Imperfect Bound to run a Zine making workshop exploring the stories behind the hundreds of copies, casts, replicas and fakes in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection. More info: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/makers...

A sample zine page. On the left individually printed letters read "Makers and Fakers: How Copies, replicas, casts and fakes 'make' museum collections". The letters are pasted over the image of a replica handaxe cradled in tissue paper. On the right details of the event workshop are given. For event details please follow the link in the main text post.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Last month I had the chance to take part in a public panel of women & representation in heritage hosted by Yinsey Wang, alongside @gracefilmer.bsky.social & Dr Sara Perry. Having a frank conversation about the topic was simultaneously cathartic, infuriating, hopeful and encouraging. Key takeaways:

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Parrot Chariot! 🤩 #MosaicMonday 📷 = imperiumromanum.pl/en/

A Roman mosaic. There are assorted decorative boarders framing an image of two green parrots, pulling a chariot which contains a rake and a sickle. Which is normal.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Excellent talk by Yu Zhuang (@uclarchaeology.bsky.social) at the Petrie Museum today, on archaeological fieldwork, knowledge production and power dynamics in 1920s Egypt & China. A pioneering, systematic approach to the topic & lots of food for thought - excited to see what’s next for this project!

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thank you for coming! Excited to see where this leads!

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨New Open Access Book 🚨 "Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt" Prof @alicestevenson.bsky.social 📚 bit.ly/40z7rDH Read More Here: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/... #LocalAndGlobal

Images shows the front cover of the new free open access book from Alice Stevenson

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#AcademicSky I still see many students taking notes by hand Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis: Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform. Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say! Listen, think, capture the key essence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Later this week I'll be taking part in this panel discussion gender, representation & storytelling in heritage at the National Liberal Club. Question for the BlueSkySphere(?): what are some of the less discussed facets of this question, that you would like to see addressed more? #WomenInHeritage

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Kicking off the year with a public "Research in Focus" talk at the Petrie Museum, on archaeological ephemera: 🟠 Friday 17 January, 1.15-2pm 🟠 "Excavating museum drawers: Archaeological ephemera in the Petrie collection" www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/what... #MakingEphemeraHappen

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Research in Focus talks

This free monthly lunchtime talk series presenting current research into UCL's Museums and Collections continues with three talks in the Petrie Museum.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

2024 was a year of wild projects - 🏞️ I marked 10 years of working as an archaeologist in Mongolia. That's a lot of test pits, a lot of conversations about heritage... and a lot of friends. (📸 by @nataliaeguez.bsky.social and Byambadorj Batsuren) (1/5)

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm in the Excavating the Collection session @tag45.bsky.social - lots of fascinating research: Helen Wickstead about secret phallic collections at the British Museum, @martynjb.bsky.social tracing the Taunton Bronze Age hoard through the archives and now @lisarandisi.bsky.social on museum ephemera:

Lots of backs of heads listening to a person speaking at the front of a seminar. On the slide it reads 'Excavating drawers: the museum drawer as an archaeological site'. The photo is a drawer with various boxes, newspapers, artefacts, labels etc

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Kenneth Aitchison @aitchis1.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@lisarandisi.bsky.social just gave an excellent paper @tag45.bsky.social on ephemera in the #Petrie collection - showing valuable social history that can be drawn out of #archaeological collections

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Check out the individual session timetables and full book of abstracts, now available on the TAG website! tag2024.wordpress.com

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Theoretical Archaeology Group 46th Annual Meeting Bournemouth, 13-15 December 2024

Evolution?

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For anyone coming to @tag45.bsky.social next week-end, you can catch my presentation on "Excavating the Museum Drawer" (yes, this very drawer) at Session 17, and see what all this Archaeological Ephemera business is about! tag2024.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/s... #ArchaeologicalEphemera

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ah, field archaeology - the more things change, the more they stay the same. (This is Lawrence of Arabia describing a dig under his then-field director Flinders Petrie).

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

(I don't know what this Yorkshire Relish is, but this promise of it being the BEST and CHEAPEST sauce in the world does mightily intrigue me) #WhatArchaeologistsEat #MakingEphemeraHappen

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What Archaeologists Read: a selection of articles used to wrap objects in the field. #MakingEphemeraHappen #archaeologylife #jubilee

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The new Lee Miller display at the Petrie Museum is all about "Seeing & Unseeing the Pyramids" - the idea that Egypt is in the eye of the beholder. In the spirit of addressing our own perspectives/biases, here's my very first sight of the pyramids - I may have been out to get the "residential view".

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Had such a fun time giving this talk for the National Liberal Club's Archaeology and Heritage Circle! Thanks to all who came along for this whistlestop tour of archaeology on the western Mongolian steppe, life in the field, and current issues with the politicisation of heritage.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A powerful take on emotional, personal encounters with archaeological ephemera - thank you @poisonchallis.bsky.social for sharing

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Now that I'm on here, I can start shouting about all the exciting things I've been up to! Like the Archaeological Ephemera project at the Petrie Museum - looking at the bits and bobs left behind by early archaeologists and museum workers, the stories they can tell us, and what to do with them.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC. 📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Excited to give this talk on archaeology in western Mongolia at the National Liberal Club tomorrow. Last few tickets remaining for members! members.nlc.org.uk/web/pages/ev...

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